Last night, at the Nightclub & Bar show in Las Vegas, the Tin Man Brewing Company of Indiana and the Federation of Beer, a Canadian company, debuted “Klingon Warnog”, a new craft beer in its line of Star Trek-themed beers. The beer, named after a Klingon ale seen on TNG and DS9, is made with German wheat yeast, Munich malt, and rye, wheat and caramel malts.

According to the press release,

“The flavor draws heavily from the blending of the rye malt and traditional clove character, creating a very rich and unique flavor, a bold beer suited for the harsh Klingon lifestyle.”

It will have notes of banana, clove, and caramel and be 5.5% alcohol by volume.

This isn’t the Federation of Beer’s first foray into adult Star Trek beverages. Last year, the company released “Vulcan Ale”, an Irish Red ale (to match Vulcan’s red surface, of course) billed as “a logical choice for a palate pleasing libation”. The ale is currently only available in Canada but there are plans to have it available in the states soon. The company also has plans to brew a Romulan Ale next year.

We here at TrekMovie aren’t sure what all the fuss is about. After all, there is only one drink that truly reaches the heart of all true warriors…

Either Klingons are lightweights, or they’ve acquired a taste for ‘beer’ along the lines of what’s manufactured at a painfully memorable J.J. Abrams filming location. I say bring on the “Romulan Ale” and give it a deserved punch. Some of the best craft beers I’ve tried lately are in the 7% range. There’s no reason Romulan Ale shouldn’t be worthy of the name and reputation.

A friend of mine owns a bottle of “Romulan Ale” (Probably from “The Star Trek Experience” in Vegas) but he never had the heart to break the seal. It remains untasted, in a cool looking, blue bottle. Perhaps that is for the best.

I had the blue Romulan Ale from ST: Exp. It didn’t bother me at all, in fact did not have much taste. It was still cool just to order a Romulan Ale while sitting at the bar at Quark’s after being beamed aboard the Enterprise. Pure awesomeness.

@12. Actually, what they’ve been linked to is an engineering deck that looks like it actually performs an engineering function. A ship with structure, and function is a thing of beauty…. particularly one with deep space capabilities, a self contained ecosystem. Water recycling might not seem all that flashy, but it lends an air of realism.

The Romulan Ale at the STTE sold in bottles/6 packs/cases was a different brewery and not the same that was sold or dispenced in Quarks bar. The Quarks bar version was Pabst Blue Ribbon with blue food coloring, which was very good, I thought. The stuff in the bottles was OK and more of a novelty item. I remember that had stacks of cases of that stuff and could not get rid of it until the month before STTE closed in 2008 and it sold like hot cakes as it was not going to be around. Then Bev Mo sold it here in CALIF for a short time and yes, I bought a case and half to drink and collect.

This is great and I will surely have it on hand to drink…. now if they can get this stuff to sell at the ST Con it Las Vegas, it would be worth it.

@32. Even with replicators, they are not magic machines, they can’t make something out of nothing. If a Starship needs to make a million tons of stuff on the five year mission, there needs to be a million tons of base matter to be made into the crews lunch. Replicators really aren’t nothing more then a fancy recycling center. Picard gets up, orders his Earl Gray, hot. An hour later, he’s leaving it in the Captains potty, where it’s flushed back into the base matter tank. It’s the circle of recycled life, my friend…and does this tea taste a little salty to you?